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4 unusual facts about 1982 Kenyan coup d'état attempt


1982 Kenyan coup d'état attempt

He had also managed to steal some military communication equipment which he had set up at a private house in Nairobi which was located a few kilometres from the city center.

The pilots pretended to follow the orders on the ground but once airborne they ignored them and instead dropped the bombs over Mount Kenya's forests.

The putsch was quickly suppressed by forces commanded by Chief of General Staff Mahamoud Mohamed, a veteran Somali military official.

Laikipia Air Base

After the a failed coup by a group of KAF officers on August 1, 1982, the Kenya Air Force was disbanded and placed under the control of the Kenyan Army.


1995 Pakistani coup d'état attempt

Some of the arrested officers were inspired by Mufti Sufi Iqbal, the head of the group who was also arrested for his involvement in the plot.

2004 Chadian coup d'état attempt

The 2004 Chadian coup d'état attempt was an attempted coup d'état against the Chadian President Idriss Déby that was foiled on the night of May 16, 2004.

2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt

Déby’s plane was departing from Bata, Equatorial Guinea, where he was attending a CEMAC summit with other central African leaders, and was destined for N'Djamena, Chad.

The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt was an attempted coup d'état against Chadian President Idriss Déby that was foiled on the night of March 14, 2006.

2006 Malagasy coup d'état attempt

General Fidy declared military rule and set up a base near the Ivato Airport in the capital, Antananarivo.

An alleged coup d'état attempt occurred in Madagascar on November 18, 2006, during the lead-up to the December 3 presidential election, when retired army General Andrianafidisoa, also known as Fidy (and a previous Director General of OMNIS), declared military rule.

2007 Zimbabwean coup d'état attempt

Gilbert Kagodora, treasurer for the Movement for Democratic Change political party in Mashonaland Central, said he and Matapo were arrested by men whom he suspects work for the Central Intelligence Organization at 2pm on May 29 in Harare.

2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup d'état attempt

On February 27, 2011, between 1:00 pm and 1:30 pm, two groups of about one hundred people dressed in civilian clothes attacked the presidential residence in Gombe.

Six people died after being stopped by soldiers at a roadblock near the Kinshasa Presidential Palace.

2013 Libyan coup d'état attempt

Zintan Local Council - On 10 October the Council issued a call for all those involved in Prime Minister Zeidan’s kidnapping to be arrested and punished.

Albert Zafy

On December 8, 2006, Zafy's property was raided by police as part of the government's investigation regarding General Fidy, who allegedly attempted a coup in November, and presidential candidate Pety Rakotoniaina, both of whom the police sought to locate and arrest.

Charles S. Shapiro

Some supporters of president Hugo Chávez accuse Shapiro of having supported the April 2002 coup d'état, citing a meeting with interim president Pedro Carmona Estanga one day after the coup.

Gerardo Angüe Mangue

Despite being charged with unrelated crimes, the six were tried alongside Simon Mann, a UK national who had helped to organize a 2004 coup attempt.

Jahangir Mamatov

On August 17, 1991, as his protest against the attempted coup in Moscow aimed at opposing Gorbachev's reform program and the new union treaty that he decentralised power to the republics, Mamatov went to demonstrate with some of his friends in front of the Parliament building and publicly burned his Party member certificate.

Mark Urban

In his years on Newsnight, he has reported on many of the most compelling foreign news stories in the past two decades: the Gulf War; the attempted coup d'état of 1991 in Moscow; 1993 events in Moscow; Bosnian War; Middle East peace process; the War in Kosovo; and the recent US military campaigns in War in Afghanistan and War in Iraq.

Naujoji Vilnia

In August the same year Lithuanian authorities cracked down on this initiative on the grounds that Polish leaders in the area had supported the failed August Putsch in Moscow.

Pety Rakotoniaina

General Andrianafidisoa (Fidy), to whom Rakotoniaina is considered close, allegedly attempted a coup in November 2006, two weeks before the December 2006 presidential election.

Sir Gregor MacGregor, 6th Baronet

The book, Cry Havoc, contains Mann's account of his unsuccessful mission to overthrow Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the President of Equatorial Guinea.

Thatcher baronets

Following Mark's conviction for his part in the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt there was pressure from some MP's for him to the stripped of the title.

The revival of viable hereditary titles was a matter of some controversy at the time of its creation and again in 2004 following Mark Thatcher's conviction in relation to the 2004 Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt.

Twilight 2000

Version 2.2, GDW's final edition of the game, was published in 1993 and featured a background in which the KGB's Alpha Group obeyed the coup leaders in the August 1991 Soviet coup attempt and stormed the Russian White House, killing Boris Yeltsin and effectively preserving communist control.

United Nations Mission in South Sudan

Fighting that spread as a result of the 2013 South Sudanese coup d'état attempt led to the deaths of two Indian peacekeepers, while another soldier was wounded in Akobo, Jonglei, on 19 December.

Valeriya Novodvorskaya

In an interview with Echo Moskvy, in which she was discussing the 2008 South Ossetia War, Novodvorskaya said that Shamil Basayev was a democrat, given his support of Boris Yeltsin during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt and his participation in the government of Aslan Maskhadov in 1997, who had appointed Basayev Deputy Premier of the Ichkerian government.


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